EP 64: How To Claim Your Confidence and Own Your Power with Lydia Fenet
47m | Jan 22, 2024Lydia Fenet knows how to own her power in a room.
Lydia is one of the world's most accomplished and sought-after auctioneers and has raised over a billion dollars for nonprofits globally alongside celebrities such as Elton John, Bruce Springsteen and Hugh Jackman.
Over her two-decade long career, Lydia served as the Global Managing Director of Strategic Partnerships for Christie’s and reshaped the fundraising landscape as the world’s leading charity auctioneer.
She has been named one of New York’s most influential women by Gotham Magazine and has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Vogue, Vanity Fair and more.
Lydia is currently the founder and CEO of the Lydia Fenet Agency, a boutique agency representing best in class charity auctioneers. On top of that, she is the bestselling author of Claim Your Confidence & The Most Powerful Woman in the Room is You.
Trust us when we say you don’t want to miss this episode! Lydia drops a ton of inspiration and unfiltered advice in our chat with her.
We get the inside scoop on her wild career journey as a charity auctioneer (including how she bombed her very first auction!), learning to know her worth and tripling her salary, and the accident that changed her life.
Highlights:
02:27 A day in the life of Lydia
08:58 A crash course into the world of auctions
11:00 Lydia’s first auction didn’t go the way she expected
17:19 Why you need to ‘sell as yourself’
18:19 How to apply Lydia’s “Strike Method” to claim your confidence
23:48 The painful way she learnt to ask for her worth
27:29 Your company is not your family
29:58 Why you need to be comfortable getting uncomfortable
34:58 The major accident that changed her life and what she learnt from it
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